What Is Joy?

If you look for the joy in the world you will fail, and you will live this existence in vain. 

Joy is not an effect produced by something, but the cause of all realization.

To fully understand the concept of joy, first we have to talk about the concept of pain. 

It must be said in account that in the physical realm, pain serves as a purifying factor of the soul, converting it into a sacred relic than shines brighter as the ages pass.  

The absence of pain is simply a waste of time, because pain only disappears by the anesthetic effect of illusion. The mind joined with Christ has no need of that illusion to be able to bear pain. Pain is the essence of creation, the base of duty. 

The concept of pain in this physical realm is badly understood. Pain exists in more subtle realms. It continues, for the surprise of many. Pain is equal to Joy, except that the first works as the negative pole of creation and the second, its positive pole.

On the one hand Joy can be verified within the center of the conscience that gravitates in a fulfilled duty, but it’s not even a feeling, it is simply a state of mind, reached by the degree of freedom that this presents. This degree of freedom is in function to space-time.

Life itself is a painful passing of continuous transformations where the soul must fight against a biological organization that constrains it and pulls it toward the levels of the animal kingdom, trying to level it where the great conscience of the masses exist. 

The spirit, aware of its mission, must fight with that biological factor and raise a weight that the majority of people deny to do, suffering the disdain of these that believe to be in the "norm", exempting them of any anomaly.

Joy must be understood as a different concept that is normally accepted, the last leaning more towards satisfied desires that the peace acquired from fulfilled duties. 

So, both concepts of peace and joy cannot be isolated nor conflicting. Let us say that these are similar states of consciousness. 

Duty then, is based on sacrifice, sacrifice based on love. Peace and joy are obtained from this duty.

There are no illusions, because duty is the light that shines in the dark, nor is it satisfactory to the senses, but there is a true reality.

Within duty, there is sacrifice for there is nothing in it to satisfy the physical body, hence the suffering. 

That is the road of duty, peace and joy is one with it, but it is also a painful road, a pain that is the best of all blessings, because it is the cure for the body and water for the spirit.

Therefore you must not look for joy in any other way that is not painful. 

For better understanding of this concept, I will add an example that will be irrefutable to form the opinion that one must have of it.

Christ while he was hanging on the cross in his slow agony was feeling joy.

How can this happen?

Because for this affirmation many would be offended, because they would frankly and openly have to transfer joy to a sensational and experimental issue.

Joy is purely spiritual, and it is the emancipation of consciousness, the freedom of mind, that when not being restrained, vibrates in chorus with the beating of the cosmos.

As explained in the beginning, pain is a state that is located in creation's negative pole, but is analogously equal in intensity to the joy obtained by the spirit in the positive pole.

To what was already explained, I would like to clarify one idea that has been expressed here, that due to its simplicity might generate confusion. 

When saying : You must not look for joy in any other way that is not painful, I am not  suggesting that you carelessly go looking for it, because this only comes when someone offers themselves to God in sacrifice for the spiritual elevation of humanity.

Therefore I am referring to this: In the delivering of the soul to the Divine Will, the path to follow appears drawn in order to reach Christ. That road is the Law, that Law its sacrifice, that sacrifice, its liberation, that liberation, JOY.

The following texts are recommended for the study of this presentation.

-Krishnamurti, Jiddu, Complete Works Volume VI, Tenth lecture  in Madras. Pág. 405.

-Llave de Oro. El Reino de Dios padece violencia.

-Orígenes de la Civilización Adámica. (Sisedón de Trohade, Josefa Rosalía Luque Álvarez), Capítulo: La Visión de las Cumbres. Pág. 75

-Bhagavad Gita. Pág. 101. Versículo 33 a 39

-Cumbres y Llanuras. Hilarión del Monte Nebo. Josefa Rosalía Luque Álvarez, Chapter:  El Místico Huerto de Filón. Pág. 329